Show MR BROWNS ATTITUDE Mr Francis A Brown of Ogden who A was before the First District Court ont on-t Tuesday for trial on the charge of unlawful b unlaw-ful cohabitation addressed the Court in person and related the story of his life l In many respects It is touching And there I is i about it the tone of conviction He I L told with touch of pathos of his fathers family and how they had fought for their country in Revolutionary times and that fromethemJie had inherited his love of liberty aija religion There was none of the bombastic sophistical pretense about his remarks that characterized the speech of Mr Musser upon a similar occasion Mr Musser made it the occasion for displaying I dis-playing his contempt of the Court and his adroitness in the use and abuso of language I lan-guage j a studied contempt for ho had J f submitted his document to friends before he read it in court and they with a sense f of decency and moderation advised him not to read it or present it to the Court How different was the manner and substance sub-stance of Mr Browns remarks With a man of such sincere conviction as Mr Browns seems to he it is but natural that ho should deem the enforcement of the E8m nds law a persecution and in his case it would so seem when compared with the actions of some who are much higher in authority in his church than he From his statement it appears that ho has entered into no polygamous marriage mar-riage since the passage of the law of 1862 Imfc l 1e may be said to be among the exceptions What becomes of those cases in which men have defied the law 4 not only of 1862 but of 1882 Can their cases have any resemblance to that of Mr fc v Brown In such cases as Mr Browns it may be possible that the Government would grant an indulgence where there a guaranteed certainty that the polygamous relationship would cease between those who have broken the law and broke it knowingly and that there would be not no-t formation of such relationships in the future But would not an indulgence to such as Mr Brown be a license to others It is this that needs to be guarded against and must be prevented Even an open disavowal by the people of Utah of a discontinuance I dis-continuance of their peculiar marriage mar-riage system and a promise that it would find no countenance or sufferance in the future would be looked upon with suspicion by the Government and all others owing to the high disrepute disre-pute into which the people of Utah have J brought themselves through the shameful shame-ful conduct of witnessess in prosecutions i for polygamy And this does not arise from the recal citrancy of witness either The people of Utah and the Government of the United States stand face to face today contemplating the Utah problem which is the suppression of polygamy and the vindication of the 1 law Jfhey contemplate it from different standpoints and arrive at different conclusions con-clusions Those conclusions are antagonistic antagon-istic and hostile and in no way tend to solve tho problem The problem must be solved that solution must be in favor 1 thepeqple of Utah or in favor of the Government In whosoevers favor it is I I BolvcdHhere must be a surrender This fact is as plain as the fact that the problem prob-lem exists The situation should be r looked at as it is and not as either party would have it The people of Utah < believe that their mission is from God 7 and that they but do His will in practicing prac-ticing plural marriage It may be said l that inans animal appetites prompt this belief more than revelation and this I may bo still the belief exists as stated above The people of the United States i i who are not of the Mormon persuasion I do not believe that the Mormons have a mission to perform on earth and that as part of that mission God revealed ands and-s ti d e practice of polygamy or pluralmarriage On the contrary the i people of the United States believe is diametri j lieve that plural marriage I cally opposed to the will of God and the j doctrines and teachings of His Son Jesus I In its essence the claim of divine sanc I 4 i tion and direct revelation is entitled to j as much respect and consideration when t made by one denomination as when made by another They are Gods chosen people J peo-ple who believe themselves His chosen people Fie reveals Himself to those who 1 1 believe lIe does Here then we have two elements to corisider opposite religious re-ligious beliefs each claiming to be the 1 truo belief and the one entitled as mnch j us the other to make the claim In discussing dis-cussing the Utah problem and its solution solu-tion the claims of divine sanction and j Gods will may be brushed aside as cutting I cut-ting iso figure in the discussion as the one claim neutralizes t the other The question ques-tion under these conditions resolves itself it-self to this The enforcement of a valid > law passed by a temporal government forth for-th preservation of the most essential I feature in all temporal governments tho 44j family The family as constituted in this q Government and all other civilized governments I gov-ernments may be wrong but tho people of all these governments do not think so and the people of this Government alone have had the family constituted threatened t threat-ened and to preserve it as they deem it best for man as a citizen or for man collectively col-lectively as a government they have passed laws for the suppression of the danger which threatens them Is it reasonable rea-sonable to expect that they will make the I surrender to the danger they have sought to guard against Rather is it not more reasonable to expect them to make i one determined and supreme effort to crush out that danger when it has become be-come so promindht and plain that the at tcntion of the whole Nation is drawn to l itl If a determined and supreme effort Lb has been decided upon and we most I 1 < 0 r F sincerely believe it has is there any question ques-tion as to whether the Government has the power to make the effort successful It is time that the people of Utah recognized recog-nized these facts and this situation and sooner or later with more or less of pain and sorrow as they may choose they 1 must render obedienceto the laws of the United States within the United States |